Cerautola crowleyi

Cerautola crowleyi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cerautola
Species: C. crowleyi
Binomial name
Cerautola crowleyi
(Sharpe, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Epitola crowleyi Sharpe, 1890
  • Cerautola (Cerautola) crowleyi
  • Epitola hewitsoni Staudinger, 1889
  • Epitola crowleyi holochroma Berger, 1981

Cerautola crowleyi, the Crowley's epitola, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on foliate lichen.

Subspecies

  • C. c. crowleyi (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • C. c. congdoni Libert & Collins, 1999 (north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
  • C. c. holochroma (Berger, 1981) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)
  • C. c. leucographa Libert, 1999 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

  1. ↑ Cerautola at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Lycaenidae - Subtribe Epitolina


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